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FAU coach Carl Pelini had recruiting on his mind after watching his team execute the two-minute offense last week to defeat Troy.
“That’s two games in a row where we had a couple of hundred recruits at the game,” Pelini said. “The North Texas game was an exciting game, came down to the end. This game was an exciting game and we pulled it out.

“Recruits were excited and that helps.”

In February, Pelini will sign his first true class. He had to scramble to put together last year’s class after arriving in December.

“I think we’ve been very well received on the recruiting trail and we are really putting together a solid class,” Pelini said. “But it’s like the same old thing. I’ll equate it to when coach (Howard) Schnellenberger was promising a new stadium and had some recruiting momentum and won a couple championships. But suddenly there was no new stadium and how long can you keep singing that same song before people start questioning you.

“Now there’s a new coach with a vision for the future. High school coaches and high school players are buying in to that vision and what we can do here. But how long can you sing that tune before people start saying ‘show some evidence of it.’ The more wins we get, the more my vision starts to sell itself.”

FAU will get to show off its stadium to recruits on a game day twice more. The Owls play at Navy on Saturday and Western Kentucky the following week before concluding the season with home games against FIU on Nov. 16 and Louisiana-Lafayette two weeks later.

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